Two Pucking Grooms: A Hockey Why Choose Romance (Puck Passions Book 2) by Nixie Finn

Author:Nixie Finn [Finn, Nixie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creek Bound Books
Published: 2024-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Emily

“But who will you marry?”

“Both of them,” I repeated for the sixth time, studying my mother intently. How was she not getting this?

“Legally, Emily. You can’t marry two men. It’s illegal.”

I clenched my fists and hung them by my side, hiding them beneath the table. “We know that. Two of us will be legally married, but we’re having a commitment ceremony for all three of us to pledge—”

Alicia snorted. “So my son will be shit out of luck if the two of you decide to leave him behind.”

My fingernails dug into my palm, and I bit the inside of my cheek. Anything to keep myself from lashing out.

“We haven’t decided which two of us will get married—”

Alicia rolled her eyes. If Mac thought Bash was surly and grumpy, he was no match for his mother. But I’d been dealing with her most of my life. I was a little nervous, but she didn’t truly scare me.

If being with Bash meant jumping this hurdle, I could do it.

“We don’t need a piece of paper—”

“That piece of paper will make it a lot harder for someone to leave you.”

My stomach flopped, and I didn’t know what to say. If I legally married one of them and they didn’t want to be with me, it wouldn’t matter. It would break my heart just as much as if one of them wanted to leave and there wasn’t any paperwork involved.

How could I convey that to my mother, though? Or to Alicia?

We needed to have a final discussion about which of us would be legally marrying each other. To us, it didn’t matter. But to the rest of the world, it was apparently a big deal.

“Keep it to yourselves all you want. Marriages are public record, so we’ll know—”

“Alicia, I can see that you’re worried about Bash.” Ava’s soft voice cut through my future mother-in-law’s smug comment. I could’ve kissed her. “We need to focus on the important parts, though. He and Em have found love and in today’s dating landscape, that’s an incredible thing.” She gave me a knowing look. “Can we be happy for them and let their relationship play out how they want it to?”

Alicia opened her mouth, and I braced myself, knowing it wouldn’t be good. Before she could actually answer, Ava adopted even more of her nanny voice and clasped her hands. “Oh, the guys are back. Who’s ready for s’mores?”

“S’mores?” Alicia muttered, slightly dazed, as if she didn’t know what Ava had just done to her, but she knew she couldn’t come back from it.

“S’mores?” my dad repeated. “I’ll get the fire going.”

He clasped Bash and Mac on the shoulder, sandwiching himself between them. “The roasting sticks are in the shed.”

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